A selection of the best of our coverage of the conflict from the past fortnight.
Insurrection: Wagner Group boss Yevgeny Prigozhin claims his troops have occupied Russian military headquarters in Rostov.
Press service of Prigozhin, UPI/Alamy Live News
Despite a procession of peace plans for Ukraine, irreconcilable divisions remain between Kyiv and Moscow.
Vladimir Putin is certainly first among equals when it comes to his relationship with Belarus president, Alexander Lukashenko.
EPA-EFE/Gavril Grigorov/Sputnik/Kremlin pool
If Russia moves nuclear warheads into Belarus the political fallout could be enormous.
Houses are seen underwater and polluted by oil in a flooded neighbourhood in Kherson, Ukraine, in June 2023, following the destruction of the Kakhovka Dam in southern Ukraine.
(AP Photo)
The Kakhovka Dam was once a symbol of harmony and co-operation among Russia and various Soviet Union republics. Its destruction vividly illustrates the death of those Soviet-era ideals.
Top two: Dmitry Medvedev took over from Putin as Russian president in 2008 before handing power back in 2012. He remains closer to the centre of power.
AP Photo/Mikhail Klimentyev, RIA Novosti Kremlin
The Ukraine conflict shows the importance of space technology in modern warfare.
Members of the Russian Volunteer Corps and Freedom of Russia Legion talk to the press after a cross-border raid into Russia, May 24 2023.
EPA-EFE/Sergey Kozlov
International nuclear experts are due to visit Europe’s biggest nuclear power plant in the next few days to assess threats from the nearby dam attack.
Ukrainian soldiers head toward the strategic town of Bakhmut on 20 may 2023, days before the start of the counteroffensive launched in early June.
Sergey Shestak/AFP
A year after two stays several weeks-long in war-torn Ukraine, ethnographer Romain Huet has gone back there. From Kiev to the Donbas, he’s on a quest to understand how the war has changed Ukrainians.
Total war: Russian president Vladimir Putin inspects operations at the tours the Ulan-Ude Aviation Plant in March 2023.
Mikhail Metzel/Kremlin Pool/Alamy Live News
The options facing the Kremlin’s economic and military planners.
Streets are flooded in Kherson, Ukraine, after the Kakhovka dam was destroyed. While the war in Ukraine is largely conventional, the use of paramilitary forces by both sides could escalate hostilities in the months to come.
(AP Photo/Libkos)
Russia and Ukraine have blamed each other for the attack on crucial civilian infrastructure. Experts explain what the incident means for future war plans, and for the safety of the affected region.